January 05
DEVOTION TODAY Have you had yours?
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Faith, by far, is a great challenge to the human psyche. The gospel of
Jesus Christ says that, right now, not by power, nor by might, we are
something we could never conceive or contribute to; new creatures in Christ;
born again and reconciled to God by someone we've never seen, through an
act we did not witness. In all practicality, it is illogical.
The natural mind is constantly grasping for something in the natural to
accredit this unworthy position. Thus, the battle grows intense between flesh
and spirit. The flesh is constantly saying, we must do to receive and the spirit
is saying, we have received, so we must do. The natural mind sees it one
way: work at it. The Spirit says, walk in it.
When a man finally receives, by faith, what he can not obtain by work, it
liberates him eternally. He works, but never sees it as work. ("Woe unto me
if I preach not the gospel" [1 Corinthians 9:16]) It is the outpouring of what
has been put in him by the miraculous power of God by regeneration. It's a
new life altogether and it's given and sustained by the grace of God.
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By: Aaron Clark
The Psychological Challenge